If there is a sound card in the system, try removing it.
It the sound is "on-board", try to disable it in the BIOS.

Then try to re-install the OS again.

If you are getting lots of other errors at random, it might
be RAM that does not match your MB correctly...

                                    Rick Glazier

From: "Dianne Erdos-Rush"
> Hi,
> After the computer crashed, I did a clean install of Windows XP Pro.  I got a strange error message at the same point two times.
> So I thought, well, maybe the disk is corrupted or something.  So I attempted a clean install of Windows XP Home.  Same message,
> same time:
> A PROBLEM HAS BEEN DETECTED AND WINDOWS HAS BEEN SHUT DOWN.  BAD_POOL_CALLER
>
> FOLLOW THERE STEPS TO CORRECT THE PROBLEM:
> -CHECK TO MAKE SURE NEW HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE IS PROPERLY INSTALLED.
> -IF PROBLEM PERSISTS DISABLE OR REMOVE NEWLY INSTALLED HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE
> -DISABLE BIOS MEMORY OPTIONS SUCH AS CHACHING OR SHADOWING
> TECHNICAL INFO:  STOP: 0X0000008E
>                       KMIXER.SYS - ADDRESS FAE30B08
>
> I dont understand, I was installing the operating system, no hardware was attached to the computer except the mouse and the
> monitor and the keyboard.  No software was installed since it was a clean install - hard disk formatted.
> I unfortunately did get the exact specs on the computer, it has 128 MB of RAM.
> Help.
> Thanks a million.
> Dianne

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